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Old 10-07-2005, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by niel
I'm curious about the origin of the name and why it's pronounced the way it is.
Niel...Penn's Linguistics Dept. website has some info on the pronunciation. You may have to dig a little but I remember finding it before there.

For the rest try this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olney%2C_Philadelphia

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